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Photo Title
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Photographer/Creator
Moises Saman
Collection
Publisher
Freelance
Caption/Description
03/05/2007
Ilopango, El Salvador. May 2007. A female member of the Calle 18 gang found raped and murdered by a rival gang on a road embankment on the outskirts of San Salvador.
The Mara Salvatrucha gang, MS13, originated in the 1970's within the Salvadorian immigrant community of Los Angeles. With a systematic policy of deportations engaged by the United States , the gang problem has been exported back to Central America causing an explosive rise in vicious gang-related crime. Today, cities like San Salvador experience some of the highest rates of murders in the world.
In El Salvador, the two most powerful gangs, MS13 and Calle 18, are kep in segregated prisons to prevent violence, virtually leaving the gangs to run their day-to-day internal affairs within the prisons. In a study released in February of 2007 by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University, there were 7,500 people in Salvadoran prisons in 2001. By February 2006, this number had soared to 12,500 detainees, though the national system had an operating capacity for only 8,000 prisoners.
Ilopango, El Salvador. May 2007. A female member of the Calle 18 gang found raped and murdered by a rival gang on a road embankment on the outskirts of San Salvador.
The Mara Salvatrucha gang, MS13, originated in the 1970's within the Salvadorian immigrant community of Los Angeles. With a systematic policy of deportations engaged by the United States , the gang problem has been exported back to Central America causing an explosive rise in vicious gang-related crime. Today, cities like San Salvador experience some of the highest rates of murders in the world.
In El Salvador, the two most powerful gangs, MS13 and Calle 18, are kep in segregated prisons to prevent violence, virtually leaving the gangs to run their day-to-day internal affairs within the prisons. In a study released in February of 2007 by the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard University, there were 7,500 people in Salvadoran prisons in 2001. By February 2006, this number had soared to 12,500 detainees, though the national system had an operating capacity for only 8,000 prisoners.
Citation
Moises Saman, "NA," in POYi Archive, Item #41611, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/41611 (accessed April 21, 2025).
Date Added
03.08.2011